Smyrna times., 1887-06-22

4hE DeCnel A. M. II. church is making
steady progress in paying off the in
debtedness for church improvements.
AT grand ralley" on Sunday thew
raised $253.OO.
Browns latest is bells on the tonone
OF his hack; The ting-ting nabulatiOns
are intended to initiate street cars,
the coming of which will be sure to
catch the ear of the drummer.
JOHN Hutton of the Western Dis
trict" has bought tract of land known
as the Atkins land u miles above
Dover for 81, 1875. Mr.. Hutton designs
erecting a house and moving there
next year.
The pic-nics of Walkers and Dea-
kynesVille school on Saturday were
largely attended and passed off most
pleasantly, but of the pleasant memoir
les, much the larger clustered about
the enjoyment of Stevenson & Pere-
goy's ice cream.
A. II. Wilson's refrigerator which he
has now in use in his shambles was put
up after his own idea of what refrig-
orator should be, and he finds in com
parison with others that his reaches
the same result with a use of much less
ice during the day.
A GENTLEMAN who was in our Office
Monday who travelled last week
over a good portion of the counties of
New Castle, Cecil, Kent and Queen
Annes says that for regularity
and size of the corn, the field of r.
Lower near Brenford takes the cake.
THE Town Council of Dover has ad-
Vanced the penalties for violating the
ordinances, that for fast driving through
the streets to $40. If the fine for this
violated ordinance was thus advanced
here, and enforced, the town treasury
would be considerably repleted.
The warm weather of the past week
has hurried on the wheat harvest rap
idly and the reaping will be general in
day or two. S. B. briggs. Walter o.
HOfecker, Geo. Reed Lohand. VIM.
NJ. Boyer, VIM. r. Smith and VIM. N
Ransom commenced cutting wheat yes
terday.
A NUMBER of our exchanges speak
of frost on Monday week. Some of the
farmers about here claim to have seen
frost or the effects of it, but as the
thermometer on that morning register
ed 52'a little after sun up, eight or ten
degrees above the frost point, the claim
looked prepOsterous.
The Peach Bureau of Information
met on Saturday and made arrange
ments to secure further subscriptions.
and adjourned to meet next Saturday
at the same place at three O'Clock. p. M.
). T. K. Polk is busily engaged in Or
ganizing local committees every dav. in
such places as Milford, Seaford, &c.
THE letter scales at our post Office
which have been in use from time i'm.
memorial are worn out, untrue, and
should be replaced by the Government
with new ones without DELAY. The
postmaster in justice to himself and the
public should persist in this demand
and it will no doubt be readily granted.
CAPT. SAMUEL PRYOR who was can.
tain of one of our steamboats, that sailed
out of our creek died in Salem, New
Jersey a week or so ago, aged rs years.
lie was not many months following
capt. Robinson, another steamboat
captain, we'll known to the people of
this section twenty-five or thirty years
ago.
SEVERAL carpenters have put esti-
mates on an addition to the Town Hall
whereby the staging will be in the rear
OF the present south wall. If this can
be done, giving all the present room
TO slttlngs and changing the front in
terror SO as to give hanging gallery,
the additional room will be commen-
aurate with our wants. The cost will
be from 81 200 to 1880.
The Sunday school members of the
Centennial NJ. E. Church will cele-
brate the 4th of July in the rear of
their hall by a grand picnic. An ex-
cursion train will run from Chester
town and the cOlored Sunday school of
Dover IS expected. The independent
Cornet Band, of Smyrna, and the Ches-
tertown Monumental Band will make
the music for the occasion.
THERE have been some changes
among the clerks the past week. John
Spruance has rented the store house of
John T. Hudson at Clayton, recently
occupied by G. F. Griffnburg. as a
hardware store, and he is to be sue
ceeded at ThompsOn's by Charles New
man OF Clements store. Jacob Van
dever of the latter store has taken a
position with Abel Sevil at CLAYTON
and is succeeded by Hervey Stewart.
A PART of the Peterson and Mustard
land that was laid off into building lots.
IN its unfenced condition affords verv
nice pasturage. Several have availed
themselves Of this what seemed to be
Iree pasturage, among them John r.
Wilson. On Saturday his horse came
home with cash an inch or two cut
through its hide, and on Monday with
It's side looking like a colander from
two loads of shot that had been
emptied therein. After this Mr.. viii
son thought it about time to hunt a
new pasture.
II. NJ. COOPER's average on his straw
berry sales was half cent above that
OF last year, the net being p cents Der
box,-very poor pay. Chas. H. Reg
lister, who was home from New York
on Saturday says the difficulty in the
price this year was from poor fruit
rather than the quantity sent. 1t ar
rived there much of it in a juicy state.
caused by the continued rains, and
could not be reshipped, as when they
are picked dry and firm, to distant
towns. They had to be sold largely to
the cart boys, and that means low
prices.
The yearly examinations in our pub
lie schools, beginning to-day, will con-
tlnue for week; and the schools will
close with the commencement exercises
on Thursday June 3Oth. The exami.
nation in the high school will be held
to-day, Thursday and Friday and will
be largely written. Miss Parrott's
room will be examined on Thursday
and Friday; Miss Budd's Friday morn
ing; Miss Spruance's, Friday after
nooni Miss Storms, Monday morning: ::
Miss McDowell's, Monday afternoon |:
Miss Doughten's, Tuesday and Miss
Hough's, Wednesday. All interested
are invited to attend.
DIR. SNITCHER, editor of the Wil-
n1DgtOniGn who met with the State
Medical Association in Smyrna last
week in speaking Of the physicians in
council says.
Every section of the State was rem
resented and it was conceded to have
been the most interesting session of re-
cent years. A new generation is now
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